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<p><span class="date">2006-09-13:</span> The W3C <a href="/Style/XSL/2006-Workshop/" shape="rect">Workshop on Gathering Requirements for
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 2.0</a> will be held 18 October in
Heidelberg, Germany at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. The XSL Working
Group invites experts to discuss requirements, features and design for
Version 2.0 of the formatting part of the <a href="/TR/xsl/" shape="rect">Extensible
Stylesheet Language</a> also called XSL-FO. The Workshop is colocated
with the <a href="http://www.w3c.de/Events/2006/PrintSymposium_en.html" shape="rect">Print
Symposium</a>. Read the <a href="/2006/09/xslfo-pressrelease" shape="rect">press
release</a>, about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/" shape="rect">W3C Workshops</a> and
about the <a href="/XML/" shape="rect">XML Activity</a>. <span class="archive">(<a rel="details" title="XSL-FO Workshop to Explore Requirements for Version 2.0" href="/News/2006#item158" shape="rect">News archive</a>)</span></p>
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<p><span class="date">2006-09-15:</span> The Voice Browser Working
Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-voicexml21-20060915/" shape="rect">Voice Extensible Markup Language
(VoiceXML) 2.1</a>. Comments are welcome through 6 October. Fully
backwards-compatible with <a href="/TR/2004/REC-voicexml20-20040316/" shape="rect">VoiceXML 2.0</a>, version 2.1
standardizes eight additional features implemented by VoiceXML
platforms: <code>data</code>, <code>disconnect</code>,
<code>grammar</code>, <code>foreach</code>, <code>mark</code>,
<code>property</code>, <code>script</code>, and <code>transfer</code>.
Refer to the <a href="/TR/2006/WD-voicexml21-20060915/#sec-changes-cr" shape="rect">summary</a> for
changes since Candidate Recommendation, including modification of the
<code>foreach</code> element. Visit the <a href="/Voice/" shape="rect">voice browser
home page</a>. <span class="archive">(<a rel="details" title="Last Call: VoiceXML 2.1" href="/News/2006#item160" shape="rect">News
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of the <a href="/TR/xml-id/" shape="rect">xml:id</a> W3C Recommendation, the XML
Core Working Group has released the following three First Public
Working Drafts to update Canonical XML to version 1.1 and to provide
guidelines on using it with <a href="/TR/xmldsig-core/" shape="rect">XML digital
signatures</a>. Canonical XML and XML signatures can ensure the
integrity of data traveling between XML processors, crucial in
applications like electronic commerce. Visit the <a href="/XML/" shape="rect">XML
home page</a>. <span class="archive">(<a rel="details" title="Canonical XML and Digital Signatures: Working Drafts Published" href="/News/2006#item159" shape="rect">News archive</a>)</span></p>

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Developing Multimodal User Interfaces</h3>

<p><span class="date">2006-09-11:</span> The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group has published <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-mmi-suggestions-20060911/" shape="rect">Common Sense Suggestions for
Developing Multimodal User Interfaces</a> as a Working Group Note.
Written for interface designers and developers, the suggestions are
based on several years experience developing multimodal applications.
The four principles described are: satisfying real-world constraints,
communication with users, helping users recover from errors, and making
users comfortable. Read about <a href="/2002/mmi/" shape="rect">multimodal
interaction</a>. <span class="archive">(<a rel="details" title="Note: Developing Multimodal User Interfaces" href="/News/2006#item157" shape="rect">News archive</a>)</span></p>
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<h3><img alt="" width="17" height="11" src="/Icons/right" />Last Call:
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<p><span class="date">2006-09-08:</span> The Web Application Formats
Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xbl-20060907/" shape="rect">XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0</a>, a
technology for extending the appearance and behavior of elements in Web
formats such as HTML. Comments are welcome through 7 December. With
XBL, elements may be mapped to script, event handlers, CSS, and more
complex content models. Content can be re-ordered and wrapped so that,
for instance, complex CSS styles can be applied to simple HTML or XHTML
markup. XBL can be used to implement new DOM interfaces, and, with
other specifications, to implement arbitrary tag sets as widgets. Read
about the <a href="/2006/rwc/" shape="rect">Rich Web Clients Activity</a>.
<span class="archive">(<a rel="details" title="Last Call: XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0" href="/News/2006#item156" shape="rect">News archive</a>)</span></p>
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<h3><img alt="" width="17" height="11" src="/Icons/right" />XML Query
Test Suite 1.0 Released</h3>

<p><span class="date">2006-09-08:</span> The XML Query Working Group
has released version 1.0 of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/test-suite/" shape="rect">XML Query Test Suite</a>
(XQTS). With this release there are over 15,000 test cases. The Working
Group is asking implementors to submit results in September
(anonymously if necessary) to help demonstrate that the <a href="/TR/xquery/" shape="rect">XML Query 1.0</a> specification can be implemented
interoperably and is ready to move forward to Proposed Recommendation.
Visit the <a href="/XML/" shape="rect">XML home page</a>. <span class="archive">(<a rel="details" title="XML Query Test Suite 1.0 Released" href="/News/2006#item155" shape="rect">News archive</a>)</span></p>
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<h3><img alt="" width="17" height="11" src="/Icons/right" />WebCGM 2.0
Is a Candidate Recommendation</h3>

<p><span class="date">2006-09-06:</span> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2006/CR-webcgm20-20060906/" shape="rect">WebCGM 2.0</a>
to Candidate Recommendation. Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is an ISO
standard for the interchange of 2D vector and mixed vector/raster
graphics. WebCGM is a profile of CGM, which adds Web linking and is
optimized for Web applications in technical illustration,
documentation, data visualization and similar fields. Version 2.0 adds
DOM access to WebCGM objects, adds an XML Companion File (XCF) for
external data, and extends graphical and intelligent content. Comments
and implementation reports are welcome through 6 October. Six
implementations of WebCGM 2.0 are already available. Read more about
<a href="/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/" shape="rect">WebCGM</a>. <span class="archive">(<a rel="details" title="WebCGM 2.0 Is a Candidate Recommendation" href="/News/2006#item154" shape="rect">News archive</a>)</span></p>
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<h3><img alt="" width="17" height="11" src="/Icons/right" />Print
Symposium to Focus on Web Standards</h3>

<p><a href="http://www.w3c.de/Events/2006/PrintSymposium_en.html" shape="rect"><img class="newsImage" alt="photo of Heidelberg Print Media Academy" src="/2006/09/Heidelberg.jpg" /></a> <span class="date">2006-09-01:</span>
The <a href="http://www.w3c.de/" shape="rect">W3C Germany and Austria Office</a> is
pleased to present the <a href="http://www.w3c.de/Events/2006/PrintSymposium_en.html" shape="rect">W3C Print
Symposium 2006</a> on 17 October at the Heidelberg Print Media Academy
in Heidelberg, Germany. Klaas Bals, Bert Bos, Håkon Wium Lie, Chris
Lilley, Liam Quin, Thomas Tikwinski, Andrew Shellshear, and a
representative of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG will present on W3C
print technologies including <abbr title="Extensible Stylesheet Language">XSL</abbr>, <abbr title="XSL Transformations">XSLT</abbr>, <abbr title="Scalable Vector Graphics">SVG</abbr> Print, <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr> Paged Media and <abbr title="Extensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr> Print. The event is
colocated with the <a href="/Style/XSL/2006-Workshop/" shape="rect">XSL-FO
Workshop</a> on 18 October and there will be an opportunity to meet the
XSL Working Group. A student discount is offered. Symposium
registration is open, and is free for <a href="/Consortium/Member/List" shape="rect">W3C Members</a>. <span class="archive">(Photo
credit: Thomas Tikwinski. <a rel="details" title="Print Symposium to Focus on Web Standards" href="/News/2006#item153" shape="rect">News archive</a>)</span></p>
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